Designed with enough space for your make-up or shaving kit, this bag has an inside pocket, a simple zipper installation and is perfect for nights away from home. Once you are finished with this project, you will have a useful accessory and the confidence to try other projects with zippers!

MATERIALS NEEDED:

• 1/3 yd. of colorful cotton fabric
• 1/3 yd. Warm & Natural Quilted Muslin-single sided
• 14" Coats zipper
• Fasturn Tube (optional)
• Husqvarna Viking Piping Foot or Pearls 'n' Piping Foot from Creative Feet (optional)
• Coats Dual Duty® All-Purpose thread
• Sulky KK 2000 Temporary Spray Adhesive
• scissors
• point turner
• straight pins
• Olfa rotary cutter
• Omnigrid ruler and rotary cutting mat
• iron
• ironing surface
• seam gauge
• water soluble fabric marking pen

From fabric:

• 1 - 11" x 16" rectangle
• 1 - 11" x 11" square

• 1 - 11" x 16" rectangle

All seam allowances are 1/4". Or, you can simply use the edge of your presser foot as a guide next to the edge of your fabric.

HELPFUL HINT: Backstitching 2-3 stitches at the beginning and ending of all seams is the best way to keep your seams strong and stop them from unraveling. Make this a good habit!

1

Lay the Warm & Natural Quilted Muslin over a flat surface so that the batting side is facing up. Spray the Sulky KK 2000 over the wrong side of the fabric rectangle. Then, place the rectangle of fabric over the quilted muslin with the wrong side against the batting; align the cut edges. The spray adhesive will hold the layers in place, or use straight pins to secure.

2

To prepare the pocket, fold the fabric square in half and sew two sides.

3

Trim off the corner leaving a 1/8" seam allowance.

4

Turn the pocket right side out. A set of Fasturn Tubes can be use to simplify the turning.      Slide the open end of the fabric onto tube. Use next smallest Fasturn Tube to push pocket through tube.

Press the seams out.

5

Take the finished end of the pocket tube and turn up 5". Sew along both edges of the pocket.

Do not sew over pins! Instead remove them as your presser foot approaches them.

6

With the back of the pocket facing the quilted muslin, center the pocket over one of the 11" sides of the fabric and quilted muslin rectangle. Pin in place.

7

Snap on a piping foot. (A zipper foot can be used in place of a piping foot.) Unzip the zipper. Over an 11" side, lay the right side of the zipper over the right side of the fabric. To ensure the zipper is in the right place, the zipper tape should be lined up with the cut edge of the fabric and quilted muslin. The suggested zipper length is longer than the width of the bag. Approximately 1 1/2" of the zipper should be extending beyond each edge of the bag. Lower the piping foot over the zipper with the channel of the foot over the coil of the zipper. Sew the zipper to the edge of the bag.

8
Zip up the zipper. Bring other side of the zipper tape over the opposite 11" side. Pin the zipper tape to the opposite side, lining up the side seams. Carefully unzip the zipper. Lower the channel of the piping foot over the coil of the zipper. Sew the zipper to the bag.

9

Zip the zipper so the zipper pull is halfway between the edges of the fabric.

10

Pin the edges of the bag, turning the zipper tapes toward the bag. Sew the side seams.

11

As you sew over the zipper, sew slowly and make sure to backstitch. Once the seam is sewn, cut the portion of the zipper that is extending beyond the seam allowance.

12

To give the bag a squared bottom, unzip the zipper the rest of the way. Poke your fingers in the bottom corners of the bag, smoothing out the fabric. Fold the bag with the side seam making a point as shown; pin. Using a water soluble marking pen, draw a line 2" away from the point. Sew over the line. Repeat for the other side.

Turn the bag right side out. Fill it with your personals and your ready to go!